The Sleeping Prince's Romance

In the end, the two went to Atobe's house.

Speaking of which, over the years, Jirou has visited the Atobe family more often than the new family next door, so the Atobe family's familiarity with Jiro from the housekeeper to the servants and maids can be said to be second only to the owner of the Atobe family.

Therefore, after welcoming Jiro into the gate, there are maids who go down immediately to prepare drinks and snacks that suit Jiro's taste.

As for Atobe, he didn't even change his clothes, and dragged Jirou directly to the tennis court wearing the Hyotei Tennis Club regular selection uniform.

Jirou didn't object either. Anyway, his main purpose today was to let Atobe vent the depression in his heart through competition and sweating. Since Atobe didn't need to rest, Cirou naturally didn't care much more.

At Jiro's level, even if the opponent is Hyotei's tennis club Nagatobe, he can easily dominate the entire game.

In order to prevent Atobe from thinking more about Hyotei's failure today, Jiro deliberately lengthened the game time, instead of directly serving or returning the ball to score as before, he hit every ball until Atobe could hardly where it can be received.

In this way, it will not make Atobe feel bored, but also allow Atobe to run all over the field, slowly sweating out the depression in my heart.

Three hours later, facing the ball that Jiro hit back, Atobe tried to run towards the direction of the ball but failed, his feet went limp, and he fell hard to the ground.

Turning his gaze from the little yellow ball that had fallen in his own half to Jiro's face, Atobe panted heavily, waved his hand, and said weakly:

"Okay...let's call here...my uncle has no strength..."

Atobe didn't speak harshly, and directly told Jirou about his weakness at this time.

"Performed well, lasted 10 minutes longer than last time."

Compared with Atobe, who seemed to be fished out of the water, Jirou, who walked over to help Atobe up, didn't even have a trace of sweat on his face, which made Atobe feel very unbalanced.

I have been in the same club for more than two years, practice matches, coaching matches, friendly matches, official competitions... Cirou has participated in countless competitions, but Atobe has never seen him shed a drop of sweat!

——The one who can force out Cilang's true strength is definitely my uncle!

I don't know how many times, Atobe firmly said to himself in his heart.

"It's only three hours!"

After looking at his watch, Atobe's smile that was originally shown by Jirou's affirmation immediately turned into dissatisfaction:

"If you change your opponent, even if you play for five hours in a row, I can still stand on the court with your own legs!"

Because Jiro's serve and return angles were too tricky, Atobe ran back and forth, left and right throughout the game, not to mention mental exhaustion, even physical strength could not support it!

The reason why Atobe can still stand now is all supported by Jirou's strength. If Cirou lets go, Atobe will definitely fall to the ground again!

"Tezuka can only support for two and a half hours, you are better than him."

Seeing Atobe's unwilling face, Jirou thought for a while, and decided to use Tezuka as a comparison to motivate Atobe's fighting spirit.

Didn't it mean that Tezuka is the fateful opponent identified by Atobe?You must know that in the original book, even Ryoma and Atobe did not care as much as Tezuka for the Ryoma who defeated him!

However, what made Jiro miscalculate was that the mention of Tezuka not only did not make Atobe feel a little psychologically balanced, but made him feel even worse.

"Tezuka? Tezuka Kunimitsu of Aigaku?"

Atobe turned his head to look at Jirou, his eyes were full of dissatisfaction:

"Why do you sound familiar with that Tezuka Kunimitsu? You often play tennis with him?"

--what happened?Why does Atobe seem to care more about Tezuka's acquaintance and playing tennis than Tezuka's strength?

Jirou was puzzled for a while at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he took it for granted that Atobe had such a reaction.

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Yes, in the original novel, Atobe does regard Tezuka as his destined opponent and attaches great importance to him.

But the main reason for this is the national competition in the second grade. When Ice Emperor faced Seigaku, Atobe defeated the head of Seigaku, and Tezuka in turn defeated the head of Ice Emperor's tennis department.

Even if the final victory is still Ice Emperor's, the fact that Minister Ice Emperor was defeated by Tezuka is beyond doubt.

However, in this life, I don’t know if it’s because Jiro, the butterfly’s small wings flap too much. Anyway, Atobe has been the head of the tennis club since he joined the tennis club, so there is no such thing as the head of the ice emperor being defeated.

As for the remaining reasons, it may be sympathy.

Atobe and Tezuka, both are the head of the tennis department and the president of the student council of Tokyo Tennis Powerful School. They are both trusted by their peers, loved by their students, and trusted by their teachers. It will naturally become a relationship between an enemy and a friend.

However, everything changed because of the existence of Cilang.

When there is someone who is better than himself and can overwhelm him in all his areas of expertise, how can Atobe focus on other people from other schools?

So for the current Atobe, Tezuka Kunimitsu is just the head of the tennis department of the defeated school. Even if his tennis strength is very strong, under Jirou's aura, it is difficult for Atobe to cause any shock, let alone the Focus on Tezuka.

In this way, Jiro suddenly mentioned Tezuka, which naturally had the opposite effect.

Cilang, who had figured this out, suddenly had a very helpless feeling in his heart——

If because of his last words, Atobe's mood after finally getting better becomes depressed again...

Then there is an old saying--

Misfortune comes out of your mouth!

Although Atobe is usually very magnanimous and doesn't take trivial things to heart at all, but looking at Atobe's extremely serious expression now, it only shows one thing——

For this matter, it is not a trivial matter in Atobe's heart!

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"I learned judo from Mr. Tezuka for a period of time, so I met Tezuka, and then we often played tennis together."

Seeing that Atobe did not let go of this topic, Jirou could only briefly explain.

Of course, there is still water in Jirou's words, the "period" is actually only one day, this Cirou intuitively better not let Atobe know.

Although Jiro didn't know why he had such an intuition!

"It turns out that at those times you refused my uncle's invitation not because you wanted to sleep, but because you wanted to play tennis with others?"

Atobu's face darkened when he thought of this instantly, and the slightly cold breath around him clearly showed his unbeautiful mood.

"……Um."

Jirou paused suspiciously for a moment. If it was normal Atobe would have noticed it, but at this time Atobe's mind was on other things, and he didn't realize that Jirou's answer was actually not so sure.